The eleventh annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1859.
- North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1860
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The eleventh annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A foul linen house has been added to the washing department. Flie result has answered every expectation. All contact being thus avoided between the ordinary bedding and clothing of the establish¬ ment, and that soiled by the “ dirty,” and epileptic patients,—the latter too, when passed on to the laundry, being thoroughly cleansed, and free from all taint. To effect this sanitary object, it became necessary to remove the lesser washing machine from the wash-house, into the foul linen house and to provide another in its place. A new one was accordingly; made upon the premises, from plans prepared by Mr. John Robinson Clerk and Steward. These plans were previously submitted to the consideration of the Committee, aud, after careful inquiry, approved o > and adopted by them. The new machine has been in active opera tion for nearly six months, and has been pronounced, by eompeten i judges, to be the best yet invented. The whole of the week’s washing] is now finished, and cleared off, by an early hour on Tuesday morning.. The Committee have been compelled to re-arrange the gas apparatus It should be borne in mind that the Cast-iron Tank, purchased in th first instance, was erected on the surface of the ground. It follower that, during the prevalence of severe weather in the winter, the water within the tank was frequently frozen to the depth of four or fiv inches. At such times it was found utterly impossible to generate an adequate supply of gas for the requirements of the InstitutioDi The inconveniencies, necessarily arising from these constantly recurrin i stoppages in the “ lighting,” occasioned extreme dissatisfaction to th; inmates, and great annoyance to the engineer in charge of the works The Committee have now provided an effeqtual remedy. An under ground brick Tank has been sunk and formed for the reception &c* of the Gas-holder. It having been represented to the Committee, that the Engines who furnished and set up the steam boilers, had fallen into “ grave and dangerous error.” Means were at once sought for to rectii the evil. A safeguard was suggested by the officers of the Institu tion. The propositions drawn up by them were laid before an es perieuced professional gentleman, and confirmed by him.— In con formity with the specification, it was determined that the Cast-iro:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30314719_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
